"for our rights[,] pretty soon we’re going to have as much rights as the meat on our bones."" ""Now, I love Lady Gaga, but as someone who also loves animals, it was really difficult for me to sit next to Lady Gaga while she was wearing that outfit,"" DeGeneres, who is vegan, later wrote. ""But it did make me ask myself, what's the difference between her outfit and an outfit made of leather?"" Fernandez was approached by fellow designer and stylist Formichetti to produce the dress, with it planned out over the course of a week, Formichetti having styled the"
"of photographs of Francis Bacon posing with sides of beef attached to his torso like wings in 1952, while ""The Daily Telegraph"" compared the dress to the original cover of The Beatles' 1966 album ""Yesterday and Today"", and noted its similarity to the cover of the November 1983 The Undertones album ""All Wrapped Up"", which showed a female model wearing a dress and gloves made of cuts of meat (mostly bacon) held in place with plastic wrap and a sausage necklace. Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro had also designed a meat dress in 2006. An earlier example of a garment"
"the dress was ""derived"" from ""Incarnation"", a painting of a white-haired girl wearing a meat dress by artist Mark Ryden. Sharon Clott of MTV also noted the similarity between Gaga's dress and Ryden's painting. Ryden was reportedly upset that Gaga did not acknowledge that she took inspiration from his work. Some in the art and fashion press remarked on the dress' similarity to , a meat dress made by Canadian sculptor Jana Sterbak in 1987 exhibited to considerable controversy at the National Gallery of Canada in 1991. Karen Rosenberg from ""The New York Times"" compared the dress to a series"
"/ I'll bet you've never seen a skirt steak worn this way"") and had a dancer dressed in a similar outfit in the music video. Following the VMAs, media outlets attempted to analyse the meaning of the dress with suggestions by BBC News ranging from anti-fashion, to feminism, aging and decay, and society's attitude towards meat. Chef Fergus Henderson explained this meat attitude as ""People often don't want meat to look like meat. They want it to be neatly wrapped in plastic from a supermarket."" People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) condemned the dress, releasing a statement that"
"said ""wearing a dress made from cuts of dead cows is offensive enough to bring comment, but someone should whisper in her ear that more people are upset by butchery than are impressed by it."" The Vegetarian Society also condemned the dress, releasing a statement that said ""No matter how beautifully it is presented, flesh from a tortured animal is flesh from a tortured animal. Enough animals die for food and they should not be killed for stunts like this."" Another controversy surrounding the dress was the question of its originality. Brooks Barnes of ""The New York Times"" wrote that"
"Travolta dress The ""Travolta dress"" (also known as the ""John Travolta dress"") is a dress once owned by Diana, Princess of Wales. It was worn for the first time at a gala dinner at the White House in November 1985. It is named after the American actor John Travolta, with whom the Princess danced at the dinner. Designed by London-born Victor Edelstein, the Travolta dress is an off-the-shoulder midnight blue velvet evening gown. It was inspired by Edwardian fashion, giving it a ""slight sweep of costume drama"". The journalist Jackie Modlinger described it as ""dramatic in style"" and ""regal in"
"a tormented animal who didn't want to die, and after a few hours under the TV lights, it would smell like the rotting flesh it is and likely be crawling in maggots--not too attractive, really."" Franc Fernandez, the designer of the meat dress, said later in an interview with MTV, “...it's not a sticky meat. It's not a messy dress at all, surprisingly. [...] It's actually very clean meat, very sturdy and strong and doesn't run at all. [...] The meat dries out, rather than rotting. It becomes jerky.” Gaga later explained to Ellen DeGeneres that the outfit exhibited her"
"hits ... [Gaga] has sported outfits made from plastic bubbles, Kermit the Frog dolls, and raw meat."" Gaga wore a dress made of raw beef to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, which was supplemented by boots, a purse, and a hat also made out of raw beef. Partly awarded in recognition of the dress, ""Vogue"" named her one of the Best Dressed people of 2010 and ""Time"" named the dress the Fashion Statement of the year. It attracted the attention of worldwide media; the animal rights organization PETA found it offensive. The meat dress was displayed at the National"
"of Fame and Museum in 2011 as part of an exhibition entitled ""Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power"". A poll by website MyCelebrityFashion.co.uk placed the dress as the most iconic outfit of 2010, beating Kate Middleton's engagement dress into second place. In summing up 2010 through a series of lists, ""Time"" voted the meat dress as its top fashion statement of 2010. When ""Weird Al"" Yankovic did a parody of Gaga's ""Born This Way"", titled ""Perform This Way"", he included a lyrical reference to the meat dress (""I strap prime rib to my feet / Cover myself with raw meat"
"and final outfit of the evening: a dress, hat, boots, and purse made of raw meat. Gaga wore the meat dress to accept her Video of the Year trophy for ""Bad Romance""; as she accepted the award from presenter Cher, she joked, ""I never thought I'd be asking Cher to hold my meat purse."" Gaga continued to wear the dress after the awards show for press photos and an interview on ""The Ellen DeGeneres Show"". Gaga explained her interpretation of the dress to DeGeneres, stating, ""If we don’t stand up for what we believe in and if we don’t fight"
"layered metaphors unturned. Yet Ms. Sterbak's work – seductive, intensely physical and edged with dark absurdity – delivers a mind-body frisson unknowable by intellect alone."" Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic (1987) is an artwork created by Canadian Jana Sterbak, first displayed at Montreal's Galerie Rene Blouin. Its most famous showing was at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, where it attracted national controversy. The work was composed of 50 pounds of raw flank steaks sewn together, and hung on a hanger. According to the artist, the work is a contrast"
"Nicola Formichetti about creating a dress made of cuts of raw beef for the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Fernandez agreed, and went to his local butcher and asked what the best cut of meat would be for such a project, and the butcher told him flank steak. Fernandez purchased 40 pounds. He and a collaborative assistant made up the design as they went along, seeing which cuts would best fit which areas, as ""there is not much plan you can do with such an organic material."" The dress took two days to complete, and Gaga had to be stitched"
"into it backstage. The reaction to the dress was mixed, earning ire from animal rights groups such as PETA, and attempts to analyze it from various media outlets. Fernandez stated ""I wasn't surprised at the response. I think everyone involved knew the response that the meat dress was going to get. I think what I was more surprised and excited by was how much the internet and technology played a part in that. I got tons of hate-mail, love-mail, and ""meat dress"" was a top Twitter topic for three days straight."" Fernandez was pleased with the reception of the dress,"
"Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic (1987) is an artwork created by Canadian Jana Sterbak, first displayed at Montreal's Galerie Rene Blouin. Its most famous showing was at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, where it attracted national controversy. The work was composed of 50 pounds of raw flank steaks sewn together, and hung on a hanger. According to the artist, the work is a contrast between vanity and bodily decomposition. The artwork is in the collections of Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and of Centre Pompidou in Paris (edition of"
"Seamless robe of Jesus The Seamless Robe of Jesus (also known as the Holy Robe, the Holy Tunic, the Honorable Robe, and the Chiton of the Lord) is the robe said to have been worn by Jesus during or shortly before his crucifixion. Competing traditions claim that the robe has been preserved to the present day. One tradition places it in the Cathedral of Trier, another places it in Argenteuil, and several traditions claim that it is now in various Eastern Orthodox churches. According to the Gospel of John, the soldiers who crucified Jesus did not divide his tunic after"
"Dressed to Kill (1941 film) Dressed to Kill is a 1941 crime mystery starring Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes and Sheila Ryan. The film was based on ""The Dead Take No Bows"", a mystery novel by Richard Burke. Private investigator Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) is just about to marry his sweetheart, singer Joanne La Marr (Mary Beth Hughes). On their wedding day he meets up with Joanne at the Hotel du Nord where she is staying, but as they are about to leave together, Michael hears a woman screaming from one of the rooms. It turns out that the hotel"
"on 1 April, Dr. Edward Ellis of the Ottawa-Carlton Health Department issued a statement that the dress presented ""no health hazard to the public at this time"", so long as no one touches or eats it. The inspector also suggested the dress was out of their jurisdiction, being on a federal property; the department asked Health and Welfare Canada to follow up. ""The Toronto Sun"" and its sister paper, the ""Ottawa Sun"", printed a cartoon featuring ""a curvy, spaghetti-strapped slip"" made of the same materials as the meat dress. The editorial cartoon suggested readers cut out the image, smear it"
"2 + artist copy). The artwork consists of a ""Flesh Dress"", constructed of slabs of beef sewn together, hung on a tailor's dummy. On a nearby wall is a framed photograph of a model posing in the dress. The dress is stitched together from 50-60 pounds of raw flank steak and must be constructed anew each time it is shown. The work included either $260 or $300 worth of meat, as of its 1991 showing. As suggested by the title, the work is considered within the genre of ""vanitas"", a category of art showing death and decay. The work includes"
"Shirt of Flame A Shirt of Flame"" refers to either as a metaphorical ""Shirt of Flame"" as the human body is consumed by fire or as a type of poisoned shirt; or as a particular type of gown or clothing given to people about to face burning at the stake for their religious beliefs. Creusa (daughter of Creon), drew the attentions and favor of the hero, Jason, and in revenge the sorceress Medea gave her a shirt or dress to wear, and the curse caused the dress to stick to her body and burn her to death. This is also"
"Video of the Year. Although it was Gaga's third costume change of the evening, the meat dress was immediately described as ""most outrageous fashion moment"" of the evening. Fernandez credits the dress with an upturn in his career, saying, ""I feel like I have a voice now as an artist and as a designer"". He had previously created items for Gaga, including a costume for her music video for ""Bad Romance"". He went on to create a hat that Gaga wore to the 53rd Grammy Awards in February 2011. The dress went on display at the Rock and Roll Hall"
"Athena. The dozen noble participants and their roles were: The ladies' costumes were sumptuous: ""Juno"" wore a ""sky-colored mantle"" embroidered with gold and peacock feathers, with a crown also of gold; ""Diana"" was dressed a ""green mantle"" embroidered with silver half moons, ""with a croissant of pearls on her head."" The costumes were created by ransacking the wardrobe of the dead Queen Elizabeth, who had left some 500 gowns behind her when she died, many of them luxurious, some worn only once. These supplied cloth of silver and cloth of gold for the goddesses' garb. Even with this frugality, the"
"37 million views. The dress was cited by CNN commentator Mel Robbins as a viral phenomenon having the requisite qualities of positivity bias incorporating ""awe, laughter and amusement,"" and was compared to and contrasted with the llama chase earlier that day, as well as to tributes paid to actor Leonard Nimoy after his death the following day. The dress itself was confirmed as a royal blue ""Lace Bodycon Dress"" from the retailer Roman Originals, which was actually blue-and-black in colour; although available in three other colours (red, pink, and ivory, each with black lace), a white and gold version was"
"White dress of Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe wore a white dress in the 1955 film ""The Seven Year Itch"", directed by Billy Wilder. The dress was created by costume designer William Travilla and was worn in one of the best-known scenes in the movie. The dress is regarded as an icon of film history and the image of Monroe in the white dress standing above a subway grating blowing the dress up has been described as one of the iconic images of the 20th century. When the costume designer William Travilla, known simply as Travilla, began working with Marilyn Monroe,"
"a number of introductions throughout the night, after which she did not appear on stage. When Monroe finally appeared in a spotlight, Lawford introduced her as the ""late Marilyn Monroe"". Monroe peeled off her white ermine fur coat, revealing the dress, and the audience gasped. The event was staged and produced by Broadway composer and lyricist Richard Adler. It was choreographed by Carol Haney of ""The Pajama Game"" fame. Monroe's iconic dress was made by designer Jean Louis and originally cost $1,440.33 (equivalent to $ in ). The dress sold in 1999 at an auction in New York City for"
"look. The dress was asymmetrical, with a cowled–neck. Fernandez specifically chose cuts to ensure that the dress kept well. Flank steak was chosen as the material to use, with the meat coming from his family butcher. The dress required Gaga to be stitched into the outfit backstage. Fernandez said of his design, ""I knew the dress would be one of other amazing pieces Gaga wore that night. It's very well made and looked great on her, on and off camera. We didn't get a chance to have a fitting. The only time she had it on was for the VMAs."
"part of the folklore trope of the Poison dress. """"They [Jason and Medea] went to Corinth, and lived there happily for ten years, till Creon, king of Corinth, betrothed his daughter Glauce to Jason, who married her and divorced Medea. But she invoked the gods by whom Jason had sworn, and after often upbraiding him with his ingratitude she sent the bride a robe steeped in poison, which when Glauce had put on, she was consumed with fierce fire along with her father, who went to her rescue."""" The Shirt of Nessus is a mythological piece of clothing given to"
"Shirt of Nessus In Greek mythology, the Shirt of Nessus, Tunic of Nessus, Nessus-robe, or Nessus' shirt was the poisoned shirt that killed Heracles. It was once a popular reference in literature. In folkloristics, it is considered an instance of the ""poison dress"" motif. Fearing that Heracles had taken a lover, his wife Deianeira gives him the ""shirt"" (actually a chiton), which was stained with the blood of the centaur Nessus. She had been tricked by the dying Nessus into believing it would serve as a potion to ensure her husband's faithfulness. In fact, it contained the venom of the"
"of three of Madonna's dancers, dressed as mermen. Author Carol Clerk noted in her book ""Madonnastyle"" that the outfit worn by the singer during this sequence was the simplest and the softest costume of the show. It consisted of a black mini-dress trimmed and stitched with a stuffed West African stork, called the marabou. Madonna gyrated around her dancers, while playing with a harp. During the chorus, the dancers lifted their prosthetic fish-tails and joined them with each other. Guilbert felt that the performance de-sexualizes men, since they are relegated to objects of adoration, like the three mermen dancers. This"
"Wedding dress of Grace Kelly The wedding dress of the American actress Grace Kelly, worn during her wedding to Prince Rainier III of Monaco on 19 April 1956, is cited as one of the most elegant and best-remembered bridal gowns of all time, and one of the most famous since the mid 20th century. One author describes the dress as ""adding to the marital fervor and elevating matrimonial fashion"" and a major influence on women who strove to ""emulate Kelly's peau de soie and lace masterpiece"". It was designed by Helen Rose of MGM. The dress consisted of a bodice"
"Creusa of Corinth In Greek mythology, Creusa (; Ancient Greek: Κρέουσα ""Kreousa"" ""princess"" ) or Glauce (; Ancient Greek: Γλαυκή ""blue-gray""), Latin Glauca, was the daughter of King Creon of Corinth, Greece, in whose favor Jason abandoned Medea. In the version of the myth commonly followed by ancient tragedians, Medea obtained her revenge by giving Creusa a dress that had been cursed by the sorceress. The curse caused the dress, or Shirt of Flame to stick to Creusa's body and burn her to death as soon as she put it on. """"To him [Jason], Creon, son of Menoecus, King of"
"cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.” Shirt of Flame A Shirt of Flame"" refers to either as a metaphorical ""Shirt of Flame"" as the human body is consumed by fire or as a type of poisoned shirt; or as a particular type of gown or clothing given to people about to face burning at the stake for their religious beliefs. Creusa (daughter of Creon), drew the attentions and favor of the hero, Jason, and in revenge the sorceress Medea gave her a shirt or dress to wear, and the curse caused the dress"
"President Kennedy's birthday celebration was held at the third Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962, and more than 15,000 people attended, including numerous celebrities. The event was a fundraising gala for the Democratic Party. Monroe's dress was made of a sheer and flesh-colored marquisette fabric, with 2,500 shimmering rhinestones sewn into it. The dress was so tight-fitting that Monroe had difficulty putting it on; she wore nothing under it. It was designed by Jean Louis. Peter Lawford was at the event that night to introduce Monroe. He made a play on the actress's reputation for tardiness by giving her"
"There's No Business Like Show Business (1954). She was photographed extensively wearing this dress with a white fur stole and with a pair of matching opera gloves. The satin dress, designed by William Travilla, is a strapless, floor-length shocking pink dress with straight neckline, with uncovered arms and broad shoulders and side slits. The dress is decorated with a big bow stuffed with ostrich feathers and horsehair on the back and a belt, both in the same shade of her dress. To make the dress easier to perform in (and to appease the censorship board) Travilla, himself lined the garment"